*alissa*
01-03-2008, 12:17 AM
:stomp:
My mom called tonight and we had been getting along fairly well for awhile now.
Well, tonight she was making me SO mad!
She started in about "the way the boys dressed." Because I asked her if she would mind watching the boys for an hour or two tomorrow while I ran some errands. She said they had dinner plans so if they were going with them then she wanted them to "not look like they came from a refugee camp". Okay, so I tried to let it go...but she kept on saying all this about how they got a bunch of new clothes, but always looked like crap because they don't wear them. :talkhand:
I explained to her that I keep their old clothes because if they are playing outside or around the house, I don't want them wearing their newer clothes and getting them all stained up, but sometimes if I am in a hurry and tell them to go get dressed....if they decide to wear their old clothes, I am not going to wait another 30 minutes for them change!
So then she started telling me that I need to do something about their hair, that it looks bad. :hammer2: This coming from the woman who DEMANDED I stop shaving their heads because THAT looked bad! WTF? The boys decided a few months ago that they wanted "Drake Bell hair". Well...I don't know if you have seen Drake's hair, but it is pretty long. The boys hair was VERY short when they decided this, so we are letting it grow out, and because of all the shaving, it took me this long to get it lay FLAT because it would stick straight off their heads. It is going to take more time and more work to get their hair to look like Drake's hair....
Mom told me that SHE would tell them they had to have the hairstyle SHE wanted them to have if they were her kids. OMG....so I kinda went off because they AREN'T her kids, they are mine, and they just want a hairstyle that is "cool" like their friends...what's wrong with that?
SO if that wasn't enough harping on what a BAD mother I am....she asked me where Zach was, I told her he was sleeping. She said it was early for him, wasn't it? Because I have been letting them stay up during winter break. I said yes, it was, but he was tired because I made hem clean their rooms today. So then she said "Well, I hope you at LEAST folded and put up their clothes for them"
OMG, at this point I was BOILING. They are 8 (9 in two months) and 6! They aren't helpless, and they sure are going to learn to fold and put away their OWN clothes because I am not going to teach them to rely on someone else to do it for them. My mom does all that for my dad, which is fine because t works for them....but MY BOYS will learn to take care of themselves!
Okay, sorry, I was just boiling mad after all that....
My mom called tonight and we had been getting along fairly well for awhile now.
Well, tonight she was making me SO mad!
She started in about "the way the boys dressed." Because I asked her if she would mind watching the boys for an hour or two tomorrow while I ran some errands. She said they had dinner plans so if they were going with them then she wanted them to "not look like they came from a refugee camp". Okay, so I tried to let it go...but she kept on saying all this about how they got a bunch of new clothes, but always looked like crap because they don't wear them. :talkhand:
I explained to her that I keep their old clothes because if they are playing outside or around the house, I don't want them wearing their newer clothes and getting them all stained up, but sometimes if I am in a hurry and tell them to go get dressed....if they decide to wear their old clothes, I am not going to wait another 30 minutes for them change!
So then she started telling me that I need to do something about their hair, that it looks bad. :hammer2: This coming from the woman who DEMANDED I stop shaving their heads because THAT looked bad! WTF? The boys decided a few months ago that they wanted "Drake Bell hair". Well...I don't know if you have seen Drake's hair, but it is pretty long. The boys hair was VERY short when they decided this, so we are letting it grow out, and because of all the shaving, it took me this long to get it lay FLAT because it would stick straight off their heads. It is going to take more time and more work to get their hair to look like Drake's hair....
Mom told me that SHE would tell them they had to have the hairstyle SHE wanted them to have if they were her kids. OMG....so I kinda went off because they AREN'T her kids, they are mine, and they just want a hairstyle that is "cool" like their friends...what's wrong with that?
SO if that wasn't enough harping on what a BAD mother I am....she asked me where Zach was, I told her he was sleeping. She said it was early for him, wasn't it? Because I have been letting them stay up during winter break. I said yes, it was, but he was tired because I made hem clean their rooms today. So then she said "Well, I hope you at LEAST folded and put up their clothes for them"
OMG, at this point I was BOILING. They are 8 (9 in two months) and 6! They aren't helpless, and they sure are going to learn to fold and put away their OWN clothes because I am not going to teach them to rely on someone else to do it for them. My mom does all that for my dad, which is fine because t works for them....but MY BOYS will learn to take care of themselves!
Okay, sorry, I was just boiling mad after all that....